The story in full??
Well.
Buckle up.
'Twas a week in late March, the first creeping tendrils of Spring in the air. The world fair rejoiced at the colours blooming and brightening....
Hummm.
Might take forever to get to the point.
Righto.
I've had tonsil stones for as long as I can remember, usually small, I used to just cough and would sometimes get them pop out.
I teach, and have found that after a hard/loud week, I often have tonsil stones that seen to surface with the slightly sore "overuse" throat that I get.
Sometimes, I use a sterilised hair pin to flick them out (yes, gross, but contained, and stops my breath smelling too bad.) They are always fairly small.
About 5 years ago, I had Quinsy, and since then, have had bacterial tonsillitis at least once a year. When swollen, my tonsils seem to force out all the stones.
Anyhow, I had tonsillitis in the Feb half term, but didn't have many stones. My throat/tonsils on my left has felt really congested,and getting worse since then.
For the last week, I've had a sore throat on that side, and my tonsil looked visibly larger, and my Eustacian tube has been itching - this normally means that I have a cold coming.
On Friday, I had a really itchy feeling where the Eustacian tube enters the mouth, quite sore, bad breath, and ended up having to shout at work.
In the car, driving back home, the feeling of itching and fullness in my throat was unbearable, so I did the 'frog-mouth and tense my throat' that sometimes helps get the stones out (move lips put, down and wide, tense throat and push up with the back of my tongue).
I felt a pop, and then had the two smaller stones in my mouth. The taste meant I was not going to swallow them, so grabbed the parking ticket to put them onto.
I then did a fake yawn, heard a crack, and the largest stone appeared. Deposited that on the ticket too, all whilst still driving.
Parked up to collect my children, and promptly took photos, then banished the remains into a bin.
The car stank.
I could hear clearly with my left ear.
My left tonsil looks a lot smaller now!